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This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the perspective of those who are more vulnerable to be sick and die prematurely: the poor.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Liberating Approach to Health Care.....................
Prolegomenon of a Project: Hermeneutical and Methodological Lines...................
Part I Human Contingency: Anthropology of Suffering........................................
1 The Unfortunate Being in Simone Weil.........
2 Rootedness, Suffering, And Compassion: Malheur And Incarnation..........
3 The Liberation Approach to Suffering: Simone Weil and Liberation Theology............
4 The Preferential Option for the Poor as an Existential Commitment.............
5 Emptying and the Preferential Option for the Poor: Mysticism and Social Implications...
Conclusion Part I............
Part II Suffering and Inequalities in Health...................
6 Liberation Ethics: Inclusion from Below..............
7 The Suffering of the Poor and Their Vulnerability: Voices from Below..........
8 Structural Violence Beyond Numbers: Learning from the Hermeneutical Lens of The Poor....
9 Structural Violence and Social Determinants of Health: The Vulnerability of the Poor...
Conclusion Part II..........
Part III Anthropology of Suffering and Liberation Ethics: Bases for Health Care as a Human Right.....
10 Global Health and Human Rights Framework from Below: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives.....
11 Popular Education and Public Health: A Community-Based Approach for Health Care Advocacy........
Conclusion Part III.......
Suffering - Health - Hope......
Bibliography.....
About the Author.....
About the author
Alexandre A. Martins is assistant professor in a joint position between the Department of Theology and the College of Nursing at Marquette University.
